video interview with locals , or combine with a drawing or e-map , mental mapping , photography and so on .
Do you want to choose a specific area or district in Budapest , or just want to find random areas ? Do you want to use the methodology of Michel Foucault - “ Les hétérotopies ” theory about places ?
http :// foucault . info / documents / heterotopia / foucault . heterotopia . en . html http :// exindex . hu / index . php ? page = 3 & id = 253
I think the 9th district ( Ferencváros ) is a great area for our project because currently a lot of old buildings are renovated by the local government , especially those buildings where underprivileged people live . The council renew this old and poor conditioned buildings with the aim of moving back the tenants , but the practice shows that after the renovation the local government gives these flats much more higher rent for families from outer district or foreign students who can pay the rent , as a result that the old tenants ( mostly romani people ) can ’ t afford to move back and excluded from the district .
Maybe we can work with this aspect . Or another idea is the VII . and the VI . district where lot of university students are living mostly from other smaller cities . Maybe we should talk about MKE students too about this .
„ An increasing uncertainty about what we mean by ‘ places ’ and how we relate to them . How , in the face of all this movement and intermixing , can we retain any sense of a local place and its particularity ? An ( idealized ) notion of an era when places were ( supposedly ) inhabited by coherent and homogeneous communities is set against the current fragmentation and disruption . The counterposition is anyway dubious , of course ; ‘ place ’ and ‘ community ’ have only rarely been coterminous . But the occasional longing for such coherence is none the less a sign of the geographic fragmentation , the spatial disruption , of out times . And occasionally , too , it has been part of what has given rise to defensive and reactionary responses - certain forms of nationalism , sentimentalized recovering of sanitized ‘ heritages ’, and outright antagonism to newcomers and ‘ outsiders ’. One of the effects of such responses is that place itself , the seeking after a sense of place , has come to be seen by some as necessarily reactionary .
But is that necessarily so ? Can ’ t we rethink out sense of place ? Is it not possible for a sense of place to be progressive ; not self-closing and defensive , but outward-looking ? A sense of place which is adequate to this era of time-space compression ? To begin with , there are some questions to be asked about time-space compression itself . Who is it that experiences it , and how ? Do we all benefit and suffer from it in the same way ?”
( A Global Sense of Place – by Doreen Massey From Space , Place and Gender . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1994 . http :// www . unc . edu / courses / 2006spring / geog / 021 / 001 / massey . pdf )
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After collecting our thoughts about the feeling of uncertainty of spaces in the city , we made a collection of spaces which would suit for an interactive work .
PÁRIZSI UDVAR PARISI NAGYÁRUHÁZ MILLENÁRIS VÁCI UTCA VAROSLIGET